Dr Neil Geddes, Head of e-Science at STFC, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Venue: Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QG The Large Hadron Collider presents unique challenges to those involved in analysing the massive volume of information produced. In one year the Large Hadron Collider will generate roughly 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes)… Read more »
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Washing Away Cave Paintings – A technical evolution
Ian Hughes, Managing Director of Feeding Edge Ltd Epredator / Metaverse Evangelist / Consultant Futurologist / Technology Developer / TV Presenter / Speaker / Blogger Thursday 13 October 2011 – 7:30pm Venue: Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Ian will talk about the impact of social media, gaming and virtual worlds… Read more »
BCS Prize 2011 – Best Final Year Project Awarded to Stephen Drain
It was with great pleasure that we were able to present to Stephen Drain the BCS Prize for Best Final Year Project at the Oxford Brookes University School of Technology graduation ceremonies. Stephen graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Network Computing and was presented the award by Sheila Lloyd Lyons of the Oxfordshire branch of… Read more »
[Event Summary] Extreme Parallel Computing – The Man, Machine and the Maths behind it
Dr James Anderson’s talk on Extreme Parallel Computing – The Man, Machine and the Maths behind it was well attended with many new faces. James explained the problems for computing resulting from the exceptions that occur in conventional mathematics, such as the inability to divide by zero, and put forward the alternative approach of transreal… Read more »
Extreme Parallel Computing – The Man, Machine & the Maths Behind It
Dr. James Anderson, Lecturer in Computer Science, Reading University Thursday 16th June 2011 – 7:30pm Venue: Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Abstract: The operations of a total arithmetic can be applied to any numbers with the result being a number. Such arithmetics have no arithmetical exceptions so they can be… Read more »
